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The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages | Jean Gimpel
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The energy resources of Europe and their development -- The agricultural revolution -- Mining the mineral wealth of Europe -- Environment and pollution -- labor conditions in three medieval industries -- Villard de Honnecourt : architect and engineer -- The mechanical clock : the key machine -- Reason, mathematics, and experimental science -- The end of an era.
"This suggests why France played such an important role in the medieval period, in the agricultural and industrial revolutions. Her population was nearly one-third that of the whole of Europe."